[KLUG Members] OO.o's handling of Word documents

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Eric Beversluis wrote:
> Some information re ability of OpenOffice to handle Word documents:
> 
> I recently received a Word document from my wife to print. As it came
> first to Evolution I tried printing in in OpenOffice.org 2.0.

Can we assume that the document was created in m$ word?

> Then to check I forwarded it to Windows and opened and printed it in Word. When
> I opened it in Word I discovered that there was a full page flow chart
> (looked like it was created in Word, not imported from something like
> Visio) that simply disappeared from the document when opened in
> OpenOffice, with no indication even that something was missing.

Not all features of OO2 Writer and m$ word are translated when
converting document formats -- this can happen in either direction (word
-> OO and OO to word)

> 
> When sent to Linux and opened in Writer (OO.o2.0),
> --the solid square bullets became hollow, vertical rectangular bullets
> --line spacing was increased (single spacing) from ca 3/16" to ca 1/4",
> resulting in 7 1/9 pp becoming a bit over 8 1/2 pages.

This sounds like a font problem?  Just a wild guess -- did the font
change or just the "sizes".  There could be default document settings at
work here.

> --the quality of the printed page in Linux was significantly worse (same
> laser printer). 

Does the quality of the printed image in Linux *always* look much worse?
 Or just for that particular document?  Or only for specific applications?

> --When the document was saved (in Windows) as rtf and sent back to Linux
> and OO.o, the flowchart still disappeared

Did the flowchart disappear in rtf format?  Or can you open the "Save
As" rtf document in windows and still see the flow-chow chart?

Use a pdf document format if it is available to you -- save in windows
as a pdf, and that should solve your viewing/printing problems on the
linux side.  It looks like I assumed the document originated in word :)

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